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The Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered the technique over 40 years ago, using a similar mechanism to hand-feed Andean condor chicks in 1981.
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Moná Thomas, People.com, 1 May 2025
Instead of visiting the iconic landmark, travelers may prefer the Colca Canyon in Peru, a region known for its stunning natural beauty and the rare sight of Andean condors in flight.
—Caroline Tell, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
In Torres del Paine National Park, guanacos (wild relatives of the llama) graze beneath the mighty wingspan of Andean condors.
—AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
In Akron, Luca the juvenile Andean condor has spent time pecking at ice between sessions of ripping apart paper, an exercise meant to mimic the bird’s natural behavior of ripping apart carcasses.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
Andean Travel Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, Colca is a dramatic gash in Southern Peru where Inca-built agricultural terraces line the hillsides, and shadows of Andean condors—with all nine feet of their wingspans—ripple across the landscape.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
Engineers are finding new ways to make wind turbines more efficient by stealing design cues from one of the world’s heaviest aerial birds, the Andean condor.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
An Andean condor has a wingspan of over 10 feet across but weighs only around 33 pounds — less than a tenth of a male reindeer.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
Emily Shepard of Swansea University in Britain and her colleagues studied flight performance in Andean condors, which at an average of 24 pounds are among the most massive soaring birds in the world.
—Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
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Moná Thomas, People.com, 1 May 2025
Instead of visiting the iconic landmark, travelers may prefer the Colca Canyon in Peru, a region known for its stunning natural beauty and the rare sight of Andean condors in flight.
—Caroline Tell, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
In Torres del Paine National Park, guanacos (wild relatives of the llama) graze beneath the mighty wingspan of Andean condors.
—AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
In Akron, Luca the juvenile Andean condor has spent time pecking at ice between sessions of ripping apart paper, an exercise meant to mimic the bird’s natural behavior of ripping apart carcasses.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
Andean Travel Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, Colca is a dramatic gash in Southern Peru where Inca-built agricultural terraces line the hillsides, and shadows of Andean condors—with all nine feet of their wingspans—ripple across the landscape.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
Engineers are finding new ways to make wind turbines more efficient by stealing design cues from one of the world’s heaviest aerial birds, the Andean condor.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
An Andean condor has a wingspan of over 10 feet across but weighs only around 33 pounds — less than a tenth of a male reindeer.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
Emily Shepard of Swansea University in Britain and her colleagues studied flight performance in Andean condors, which at an average of 24 pounds are among the most massive soaring birds in the world.
—Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
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